NIST Contracts in the South West

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring NIST skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited NIST over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 105 123
Rank change year-on-year +37 +18 +14
Contract jobs citing NIST 94 55 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.85% 1.62% 1.23%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.12% 13.96% 11.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 31
10th Percentile £500 £518 £525
25th Percentile £525 £600 £549
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £613
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +6.12% -
75th Percentile £690 £688 £716
90th Percentile £700 £779 £813
England median daily rate £625 £650 £638
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £65.18 - £63.17
25th Percentile £67.31 £59.73 £67.62
Median hourly rate £72.75 £64.15 £72.42
Median % change year-on-year +13.41% -11.43% -
75th Percentile £76.31 £72.98 £80.68
90th Percentile £77.33 - £82.77
England median hourly rate £67.50 £68.42 £72.42
% change year-on-year -1.34% -5.53% +42.28%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

NIST falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 549 394 404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 16.64% 11.63% 11.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 310 266 284
10th Percentile £263 £269 £187
25th Percentile £397 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £600 £662 £588
90th Percentile £700 £744 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 47 20
10th Percentile £12.24 £18.09 £38.69
25th Percentile £14.00 £55.55 £51.24
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £81.66 £69.87
90th Percentile - £83.40 £79.25
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

NIST
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing NIST as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for NIST in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing NIST in the South West.

Daily rate trend for NIST in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NIST in the South West over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for NIST in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing NIST in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for NIST in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NIST within the South West region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wiltshire +28 61 £600 -7.69% 5
Bristol +14 20 £525 -17.65% 12
Dorset +6 5 - - 2
Gloucestershire +1 3 £600 -22.58% 3
Somerset - 3 £700 - 5
Devon -3 2 £475 -5.94%
NIST
England

NIST
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (4.26%) Apache Solr
1 4 (4.26%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 8 (8.51%) AWS
2 7 (7.45%) Azure
3 5 (5.32%) GCP
4 4 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 4 (4.26%) AWS CloudTrail
4 4 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.19%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.06%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.77%) Network Security
2 8 (8.51%) DNS
2 8 (8.51%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.26%) HTTPS
3 4 (4.26%) IPsec
4 3 (3.19%) Firewall
5 2 (2.13%) DHCP
6 1 (1.06%) Internet
6 1 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.06%) VPN
6 1 (1.06%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.26%) Couchbase
1 4 (4.26%) MySQL
1 4 (4.26%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.13%) Artifactory
General
1 58 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (12.77%) Telecoms
3 10 (10.64%) Manufacturing
4 9 (9.57%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.51%) Military
6 7 (7.45%) Legal
7 4 (4.26%) Finance
8 3 (3.19%) Electronics
8 3 (3.19%) Marketing
9 2 (2.13%) Banking
10 1 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (24.47%) Lead
2 15 (15.96%) Analyst
3 12 (12.77%) Architect
4 11 (11.70%) Consultant
5 10 (10.64%) Cyber Defence Analyst
5 10 (10.64%) Security Consultant
6 9 (9.57%) Security Engineer
7 8 (8.51%) Project Manager
7 8 (8.51%) SOC Manager
8 7 (7.45%) Lead Architect
9 5 (5.32%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) Cloud Engineer
10 4 (4.26%) DV Cleared Project Manager
10 4 (4.26%) Information Security Consultant
10 4 (4.26%) SOC Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Information Assurance Consultant
11 3 (3.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 3 (3.19%) Service Architect
12 2 (2.13%) Cybersecurity Engineer
12 2 (2.13%) Principal Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.51%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (4.26%) JSON
2 4 (4.26%) LEMP Stack
2 4 (4.26%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (4.26%) YAML
3 1 (1.06%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.06%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 46 (48.94%) Cyber Defence
2 42 (44.68%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 38 (40.43%) Cyber Threat
3 38 (40.43%) Management Information System
4 14 (14.89%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (9.57%) Cloud Native
6 8 (8.51%) Security Posture
7 7 (7.45%) CESG
8 4 (4.26%) Cyber Security Posture
8 4 (4.26%) Operational Technology
8 4 (4.26%) Public Cloud
9 3 (3.19%) SCADA
10 1 (1.06%) Cyberattack
10 1 (1.06%) Onboarding
10 1 (1.06%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.51%) Linux
2 4 (4.26%) CentOS
2 4 (4.26%) Windows
3 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (2.13%) Unix
3 2 (2.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (78.72%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (65.96%) Information Security
3 57 (60.64%) SIEM
4 44 (46.81%) Incident Response
5 41 (43.62%) SOAR
6 40 (42.55%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 40 (42.55%) Mentoring
6 40 (42.55%) Root Cause Analysis
6 40 (42.55%) Threat Intelligence
7 39 (41.49%) Use Case
8 37 (39.36%) Case Management
8 37 (39.36%) Incident Management
8 37 (39.36%) MITRE ATT&CK
9 36 (38.30%) CRM
9 36 (38.30%) Protective Monitoring
10 21 (22.34%) Security Operations
11 17 (18.09%) Security Architecture
12 16 (17.02%) Agile
13 12 (12.77%) Cloud Security
14 11 (11.70%) Information Assurance
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.26%) C#
1 4 (4.26%) PHP
2 2 (2.13%) Java
2 2 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
2 2 (2.13%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 76 (80.85%) Security Cleared
2 55 (58.51%) DV Cleared
3 26 (27.66%) CISSP
4 21 (22.34%) CISM
5 18 (19.15%) SC Cleared
6 9 (9.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 8 (8.51%) CEH
8 7 (7.45%) CISA
8 7 (7.45%) CISMP
8 7 (7.45%) ISACA
8 7 (7.45%) SSCP
9 5 (5.32%) CESG Certified Professional
10 4 (4.26%) CLAS
10 4 (4.26%) Degree
11 2 (2.13%) Network+ Certification
12 1 (1.06%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.06%) CCNP
12 1 (1.06%) CCSP
12 1 (1.06%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (56.38%) NIST 800
2 29 (30.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (20.21%) GDPR
4 12 (12.77%) HIPAA
5 10 (10.64%) PCI DSS
6 8 (8.51%) NCSC
7 5 (5.32%) JSP 440
8 4 (4.26%) Cyber Essentials
8 4 (4.26%) QA
8 4 (4.26%) RMADS
9 3 (3.19%) ISA99
9 3 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 2 (2.13%) COBIT
10 2 (2.13%) COSO
10 2 (2.13%) SLA
11 1 (1.06%) GRC
11 1 (1.06%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (2.13%) Docker
1 2 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (8.51%) Kibana
1 8 (8.51%) logstash
2 6 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.38%) Terraform
3 4 (4.26%) Ansible
3 4 (4.26%) Trend Micro Deep Security
4 2 (2.13%) SCCM
4 2 (2.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.06%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 50 (53.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.51%) Tanium
3 7 (7.45%) Splunk
4 5 (5.32%) Google
5 4 (4.26%) SAP
6 3 (3.19%) LogRhythm
6 3 (3.19%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.13%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.13%) Veeam
7 2 (2.13%) VMware
8 1 (1.06%) CyberArk